Grr. So I ordered from Zappo's on Thursday night...they said they shipped Friday, gave me a UPS number. UPS says they shipped Saturday...and it'll be delivered NEXT Tuesday! WTF?!?!
Nothing worse than a monster who thinks he's right with God.
Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
meara - Nov 22, 2010 6:54:00 pm PST #9284 of 30000
Burrell - Nov 22, 2010 7:19:18 pm PST #9285 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
egad meara, it's like Tino took over Zappos!
Vortex - Nov 22, 2010 7:26:26 pm PST #9286 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
So, hivemind, my hair is practically striped, it's been so long since I dyed it, and I'm thinking about returning to black. Perhaps with henna. Any thoughts/advice on using henna for hair dying purposes.
Spidra Webster - Nov 22, 2010 7:37:28 pm PST #9287 of 30000
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
I've used henna, but only for red highlights. Can't speak to its blackening abilities...
Feel bad for my mom. She's downstairs going through boxes of stuff from her mom's estate. Which things go to whom. Which get sold, etc. She's so exhausted. My grandma got sick at the end of May and was in the hospital 'til she died in late July. Then funeral in August, estate stuff ever since. In the middle of all this, my house closed in mid-July and I moved in then. It's been a really tough year on everyone.
I'll be helping her with trying to get some of the stuff up on Ebay, Craig's List or Etsy, whichever I think it'll sell best on. I've never done Etsy before so I'm not sure how best to sell there but some of the vintage kitchen stuff and the designer purses and outfits will sell better there than anywhere else, I think. (Etsy is still about handmade stuff in my mind but I've seen so many Etsy stores that are selling stuff you'd find in a vintage store that I guess it's ok.) In my hands now are some beautiful hand-hammered aluminum things. The serving dish is in an incredibly tasteful floral/botanical pattern. This stuff was made in Western PA at a forge that is still in business. That's where my mom's folks hail from. The Shenango dishes I have (which I'm keeping) were made in a factory where my great-aunt worked painting them. It's a kind of history my family doesn't have a lot of. We don't have many heirlooms. But there's something cool about these regional items that were new when they were bought but are vintage now and reminders of where they come from.
Beverly - Nov 22, 2010 9:20:53 pm PST #9288 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
If you have the opporunity to follow your bliss, don't put it off. But from this vantage I can definitely say, better late than never.
Barb - Nov 22, 2010 9:48:43 pm PST #9289 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Please tell me that everything being shut down and gridlocked around here due to the freakish weather isn't A Sign for my book release?
Although I suppose I ought to be grateful my signing/launch isn't for another two weeks...
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Nov 22, 2010 10:02:33 pm PST #9290 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
It is not A Sign, Barb. All the very best for the launch and signing! So exciting. I'll be looking out for your book - I'll report back on how many I see in UK bookshops!
Not until I got to college did I realize how awesome I have it with my own slightly-fucked up but wonderfully goofy family that loves me.
Good, isn't it? It wasn't until I met The Girl that I understood that, despite my family's very substantial fucked-up-ness, I am still one of the luckiest people ever because they love me and would do anything for me. Partly because I got to compare them with her family. Also because of the utterly unconditional welcome they gave her into our family. (My father actually told her 'welcome to the family' when he met her, about a month after we started dating. You've never seen someone look so scared.)
smonster, I hope your mom doesn't have too much of a hard time adjusting if your plans work out.
Shir - Nov 22, 2010 11:07:11 pm PST #9291 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Good luck with your family, smonster.
Nothing but a world of hugs and support to you and your brother and his girlfriend, P-C.
Not A Sign, Barb.
And now, I have come to point you to this:
But did you correct your results using a dead salmon? [link]
omnis_audis - Nov 23, 2010 12:05:52 am PST #9292 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Please tell me that everything being shut down and gridlocked around here due to the freakish weather isn't A Sign for my book release?In New York, the theater crowds superstitions say rain on opening night was a great sign of good luck. So? Freakish weather indicates best seller, right?
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Nov 23, 2010 12:42:56 am PST #9293 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
But did you correct your results using a dead salmon?
"Either we have stumbled onto a rather amazing discovery in terms of post-mortem ichthyological cognition, or there is something a bit off with regard to our uncorrected statistical approach."
Genius. I'll be showing that to all my quantitative researcher colleagues, then.